Get ready to meet Microsoft's experts on-site in the exhibit hall and in multiple educational sessions (including a pre-con, keynote and learning pathway). Watch a sneak peek of Microsoft's learning pathway 'Becoming an Azure SQL DBA – Advancing the Role of the On-Premises SQL Server DBA'
2024-09-18
Adding a new shared disk to Windows Server failover Cluster is not a complex process but special care must be taken when you want to use the new disk for any existing SQL Instance. In this article, we will show you all the required steps to add the disk to WSFC and then to properly assign it to an existing SQL role in the WSFC.
2024-09-16
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Learn how to create a backup of an AWS RDS for SQL Server database and download the backup file to use on another SQL Server instance.
2024-09-16
Connect, share and learn with the global data community in Seattle this November. Whether you're a DBA, Developer, Architect, Engineer or you're just getting started in your data career, there's a huge range of content for you to choose from (over 150 sessions and counting across 5 different tracks). Speakers this year include Steve Jones, Grant Fritchey, Ryan Booz, Bob Ward, Deepthi Goguri and Jennifer Stirrup. Check out the full program and register before September 18 to secure your ticket at the standard price.
2024-09-16 (first published: 2024-08-19)
A list of articles in my series on Azure Data Studio along with a few other links.
2024-09-13 (first published: 2024-01-10)
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Three new speakers will be taking to the stage at this year's PASS Data Community Summit for the New Stars of Data Track. Sessions will be delivered by Haripriya Naidu, Vitalija Bartusevičiūtė, and Jarid McKenzie!
2024-09-13
In this article, I will cover a bit about the LIKE operator, including how it works, and a bit of history about why it is like it is. After establishing this, I will discuss a bit about how you can (and should) use the LIKE operator in your CHECK constraints to strengthen your data integrity.
2024-09-13
This next article examines the impact of transaction sizes on the performance of our Delta Parquet tables.
2024-09-11
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A list of all builds for SQL Server 2016. Updated with CU2 for SP2 and CU10 for SP1.
2024-09-11 (first published: 2017-01-25)
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2024-09-11 (first published: 2018-12-18)
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By James Serra
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I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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